An appeal to Mass. rural affairs chief: Keep these places rural

A row of homes along Curve Street in Millis.The Boston Globe/Globe Freelance

Re “Healey taps senator for new rural affairs post” (Metro, May 23): It seems that the description of Anne M. Gobi’s job as the newly appointed director of rural affairs by Governor Maura Healey is to make them a whole lot less rural.

When I see the terms “economic development” and “rural towns” in the same sentence, it usually means free rein for developers to begin reducing the rural nature of those towns.

Joseph Chamberlain

Lakeville